My Most Colorful IWC. Show Us Yours!

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I woke up yesterday and headed out for my usual morning exercise walk. It was one of those Fall days that reminds you that Winter is not far off. You know the type – very overcast, damp, and rather chilly with a stiff wind adding to the morning chill. With most trees having lost at least half their leaves and many already bare, there was little to suggest anything cheerful.

Little that is, until I saw the Japanese Maple at the corner of our house. Its green serenity that always provided a touch of coolness during the Summer had seemingly overnight exploded in a frenzy of gold and orange. That afternoon the sun burned off the morning clouds, so I hustled out to photograph our Japanese Maple.

I was inspired enough to continue up the street to shoot a few larger maples that were still well dressed. The US Midwest isn’t known for its colorful hardwood trees, but these were pretty nice. I only wish I were a good enough photographer to allow you to see what I was able to see in its real glory.

Seeing these beauties made me remember watches I once had that illustrated these Fall colors. There was a Zenith that had color similar to that Japanese Maple, and

this Blancpain Toute Vitesse had a yellow, orange, red, and brown (strap) color scheme similar to the maple trees I saw.

My thoughts of course turned back to IWC. I remembered what a significant breakthrough in color the first Cousteau represented. If I recall, it was a surprise use of blue at a time where for quite a few years years IWC had reserved blue dials for use only in platinum cases.

IWC continued the use of blue with additional Cousteaus, then the ongoing Laureus series, and now the two (so far) Le Petit Princes. They even tried green once (that I recall). Does anyone else remember this one?

I guess when it comes to watches, “it isn’t easy being green”.

So with that background, I decided to wear my most colorful IWC. Of course, when I opened my watch box, I was greeted with an array of earthy blacks, browns, grays, silvers, golds, creams, etc. As Kurt Klaus once said, IWC puts the good stuff on the inside. So in deciding my most colorful IWC, I had to rely on my old Physics lessons. Color is actually the reflection from the surface of that particular wavelength, and white is the reflection of all 7 colors of the spectrum. Thus, my most colorful IWC is this one, because what you see is actually red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, AND violet.

whichwatch Wrote:My thoughts of course turned back to IWC. I remembered what a significant breakthrough in color the first Cousteau represented. If I recall, it was a surprise use of blue at a time where for quite a few years years IWC had reserved blue dials for use only in platinum cases.

OK, so I cheated a bit. You can probably do better.

Show us your most colorful IWC!

Sorry, I am compelled to cheat as well! Please forgive me. My IWC are all black so, as blue is "in the news" at the moment, I would like to share this Beauty of the 1970s, from my 3rd favourite brand.

Best RegardsMark@constellation_mWhat a family we belong to and have become